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Central Europe West Germany T A HE YEAR 1974 saw economic stagnation and recession, a change of government, and a substantial drop in the vote for the ruling Social Democratic party (SPD). The rate of economic growth dropped sharply, gross national product increasing by only 0.4 per cent, as against 5.3 per cent in 1973. At year's end, there were almost one million unemployed. Still, the economic situation in the Federal Republic was better than in any other Western country. The rate of inflation during the year was only 7 per cent. Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt resigned in May. While the immediate cause was the discovery that his personal assistant Guenter Guillaume was an East Ger- man spy, Brandt was also charged by his own party, and by the opposition, with lack of leadership in both the political and economic spheres. He nevertheless remained chairman of the Social Democratic party. He was succeeded on May 16 by Helmut Schmidt, a former Wehrmacht officer who had been a Hamburg senator and had held the portfolios of defense, economy, and finance in the federal govern- ment. On May 15 the former chairman of the Free Democratic party (FDP), Walter Scheel, was chosen to succeed Gustav Heinemann as federal president. Former Interior Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who became foreign minister in Schmidt's cabinet, was named FDP chairman in October. In the various state and local elections held during the year, the ruling Social Democratic party losses ranged from 5 to 13 per cent and the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) gains were between 3 and 8 per cent. The SPD setback was most severe in the March elections for the Hamburg state legislature, where it received only 44.9 per cent of the vote, compared with 55.3 per cent in 1970. The opposition Christian Democrats polled 40.6 per cent, compared with 32.8 in 1970, and the Free Democrats, nearly 10.9, up from 7.1 per cent. The trend begun in Hamburg continued in the communal elections in Schleswig- Holstein and in the council elections in Rhineland-Palatinate. Losses continued after Schmidt succeeded Brandt, in the June legislative elections in Lower Saxony, and the elections to the state legislatures of Hesse and Bavaria showed similar losses. However, slight gains by the Free Democrats retained majorities for the governing coalitions. The neo-Nazi National Democratic party was proportionately the heavi- est loser in Hesse and Bavaria, with a decline of 2.1 and 1.8 per cent from the 1970 elections. 339 340 / AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK, 1976 Within the European Economic Community (EEC; Common Market) and NATO there were growing difficulties and differences on questions of energy, and regional and world politics. The Federal Republic appeared to be the strongest and most stable state in EEC, politically and economically. Its export surpluses were the largest. Stagnation marked Bonn's relations with the Eastern bloc. In June the Bundestag ratified the normalization treaty with Czechoslovakia. In the same month President Tito of Yugoslavia visited Germany. Belgrade was granted a credit of DM 700 million. While attempts were made to improve relations with the Arab states, Bonn stressed the unchanging nature of its Middle East policy in respect to the vital interests of Israel. In April Chancellor Brandt visited Algiers and Cairo. An agreement for financial cooperation was concluded with Algeria. Also in April, a Bundestag delegation headed by Gerhard Schroeder, chairman of its foreign affairs committee, went to Cairo. Diplomatic relations with Iraq and Syria were resumed. In July in Bonn, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and his Egyptian coun- terpart, Ismail Fahmy, agreed on close economic cooperation between the two countries, with a promise to Cairo of DM 500 million capital assistance by 1976. In the UN General Assembly the Federal Republic abstained from voting on the resolution regarding the Palestine question, but voted against the admission of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as an observer during UN deliberations. In the debate on Palestine, Bonn's Ambassador Riidiger von Wechmar declared: We support the right of self-determination of the Palestinian people. For us Germans, with our tragic experiences, this goes without saying. We regard it as impermissible to acquire territory by force, and regard it as essential that Israel end the territorial occupation that it has maintained since the 1967 con- flict. But we believe that in the settlement of the Palestine question it is necessary to observe all the principles laid down in Security Council decision #242. This means above all that such a settlement must start from respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence of every state in the Near East, as well as the right of these states to live in peace within their recognized boundaries. All states in the region must be guaranteed the right to life and to a secure existence. This applies to Israel in particular. In this connection Genscher stressed that the Federal Republic would not partici- pate in any Middle East policy that did not guarantee Israel's existence and right to live. The CDU/CSU opposition charged that Wechmar's speech was a serious backward step in Germany's Middle East policy and destroyed the credibility of the government's verbal assertions of a special German-Israeli relationship. The posi- tion taken in the UN was, it said, extremely inopportune and politically unconsid- ered. In UNESCO Bonn abstained on the question of admitting the PLO, but voted for Israel's acceptance into the European group. In September Gerhard Schroeder met with Yasir Arafat in Damascus. The Social Democratic party expressed its approval on the ground that the information he acquired could be useful. Minister of State Hans-Jiirgen Wischnewski, an SPD member, revealed that he had met with Arafat in 1970. The Central Council of Jews in Germany protested that a leader of terrorists could not be a proper partner in discussions. WEST GERMANY / 341 Chancellor Schmidt sent a telegram to Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin expressing certainty that cooperation between the governments of Germany and Israel would continue, as before, a sentiment he voiced in his official policy state- ment: "We have an unaltered vital interest in a just and lasting peace settlement in the Middle East. On this I reaffirm the policy of my predecessors in office. We continue to support the peace efforts in this region and will cooperate with our partners in the search for peace." In July Bonn granted Israel capital assistance for 1974, as it had done in previ- ous years: DM 140 million for various development projects. It declared that no "spectacular changes" were planned in cooperation with Israel in regard to devel- opment. Since 1950 Israel had received about DM 1.2 billion in development help from Bonn. In September Schroeder and the other members of the Bundestag foreign affairs committee visited Israel and had discussions with President Ephraim Katzir and Prime Minister Rabin, among others. Extremism Leftist extremism increased during the year, while rightist extremism declined. The number and membership of extreme left organizations grew; while their influ- ence at the universities declined, the campaign against Israel and Zionism by ultra- left students continued unabated. They found imitators among high-school student groups and newspapers. Though there was a decrease in right-wing extremist groups recorded and in their membership, they tended to become more extreme. The interior ministry's report, "Constitutional Protection 1973," described right-wing extremism in that year as peripheral and no danger to the democratic system. Nor did it consider left-wing extremism a current danger. At the end of 1973 there reportedly were 107 right- wing extremist organizations with 21,700 members, and 78 ultra-rightist publica- tions with an average weekly circulation of 196,700. By far the most important was the Munich weekly Deutsche National-Zeitung, with a circulation of 106,000. There were 1,343 right-wing extremists in the civil service. According to the report, the National Democratic party had about 12,000 members. The same report said that there were 317 ultra-leftist organizations with 87,000 members, and 1,380 publica- tions with a weekly circulation of 880,000. There were 1,423 left-wing extremists in public service. The school system employed 133 right-wing and 322 left-wing extremists. Of the disturbances or threats of force that occurred in that year, 23 were right-extremist and 322 left-extremist; several arrests were made. Among army personnel were 125 right-wing and 33 left-wing extremists. The most prominent of the right extremists was the 51-year-old Lieutenant-Colonel Werner Witt, chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein NPD. Hesse reported 138 left-wing and 134 right-wing extremists in the state's public service; Baden-Wuerttemberg had 246 leftists and 156 rightists, and Bavaria 155 leftists and 247 rightists. Bonn and the prime minis- ters of the states tried to carry out an earlier decision to regulate the employment 342 / AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK, 1976 of extremists in civil service, but by year's end no agreement on procedure had been reached. In April, 15 right extremists and NPD sympathizers disrupted an exhibit on "National Socialist Policy in Poland" held by the Society for German-Polish Under- standing in Berlin-Schoeneberg's town hall. They defaced pictures and documents, and demanded the release of Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess from Spandau prison. In April, too, 50 youths in brown shirts and swastika armbands celebrated Hitler's birthday at Westerland on the island of Sylt, under Hitler photographs and swastika flags. In June two left-wing extremist students were arrested in Erlangen on a charge of having ties with Palestinian terrorists and planting bombs.
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